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DOI	10.5194/hess-24-1275-2020
	Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States
	Turner S.W.D.; Xu W.; Voisin N.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	1275
结束页码	1291
卷号	24 期号:3
英文摘要	Medium-to long-range forecasts often guide reservoir release decisions to support water management objectives, including mitigating flood and drought risks. While there is a burgeoning field of science targeted at improving forecast products and associated decision support models, data describing how and when forecasts are applied in practice remain undeveloped. This lack of knowledge may prevent hydrological modelers from developing accurate reservoir release schemes for large-scale, distributed hydrology models that are increasingly used to assess the vulnerabilities of large regions to hydrological stress. We address this issue by estimating seasonally varying, regulated inflow forecast horizons used in the operations of more than 300 dams throughout the conterminous United States (CONUS). For each dam, we take actual forward observed inflows (perfect foresight) as a proxy for forecasted flows available to the operator and then identify for each week of the year the forward horizon that best explains the release decisions taken. Resulting "horizon curves" specify for each dam the inferred inflow forecast horizon as a function of the week of the water year. These curves are analyzed for strength of evidence for contribution of medium-to long-range forecasts in decision making. We use random forest classification to estimate that approximately 80% of large dams and reservoirs in the US (1553±50 out of 1927 dams with at least 10Mm3 storage capacity) adopt medium-to long-range inflow forecasts to inform release decisions during at least part of the water year. Long-range forecast horizons (more than 6 weeks ahead) are detected in the operations of reservoirs located in high-elevation regions of the western US, where snowpack information likely guides the release. A simulation exercise conducted on four key western US reservoirs indicates that forecast-informed models of reservoir operations may outperform models that neglect the horizon curve-including during flood and drought conditions. © Author(s) 2020.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Dams; Decision making; Decision support systems; Decision trees; Digital storage; Drought; Floods; Forecasting; Random forests; Reservoir management; Water management; Decision support models; Long-range forecasts; Management objectives; Perfect foresights; Random forest classification; Reservoir operation; Simulation exercise; Strength of evidence; Reservoirs (water); decision making; drought; forecasting method; hydrological modeling; inflow; snowpack; vulnerability; water management; water storage; United States
来源期刊	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/159469
作者单位	Turner, S.W.D., Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States; Xu, W., Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States; Voisin, N., Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Turner S.W.D.,Xu W.,Voisin N.. Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States[J],2020,24(3).
APA	Turner S.W.D.,Xu W.,&Voisin N..(2020).Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,24(3).
MLA	Turner S.W.D.,et al."Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24.3(2020).